In the fourth volume of her pioneering history, Julie Coleman considers the trends of lexicographers in a period dominated by the Second World War, the Cold War, various civil rights movements, and numerous youth trends.

Indice e argomenti trattati

Preface

xv

Acknowledgements

xviii

List of Illustrations

xix

List of Tables

xx

Abbreviations and Conventions

xxiii

Introduction

1

1 Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

7

DSUE1 (1937)

8

DSUE2 (1938)

24

DSUE3 (1949)

28

DSUE4 (1951)

30

DSUE5 (1961)

30

Partridge's Smaller Slang Dictionary (1961 and 1964)

32

DSUE6 (1967)

34

DSUE7 (1970)

36

Partridge's Dictionary of Historical Slang (1972)

38

DSUE8 (1984)

38

Paul Beale's Partridge's Concise DSUE (1989)

41

Rosalind Fergusson's Shorter Slang Dictionary (1994)

43

Conclusions

47

2 Dictionaries of Military Slang

49

British and Commonwealth Glossaries of the Second World War

50

Gerald O'Driscoll's The Merry Matloe Again (1938) and Sailors Have a Word for It (1943)